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Your payment would be about $2,739 a month at full retirement age Jeffrey E. Epstein October 23. 2018 Your Social Security Statement Are you thinking about retirement? Are you ready for retirement? We have tools that can help you! • Estimate your future retirement benefits using our retirement estimator • Apply for retirement, spouse's, Medicare, or disability benefits using our Online Applications • And once you receive benefits you can manage your benefits within my Social Security Your Social Security Statement tells you about how much you or your family would receive in disability, survivor, or retirement benefits. It also includes our record of your lifetime earnings. Check out your earnings history, and let us know right away if you find an error. This is important because we base your benefits on our record of your lifetime earnings. Social Security benefits are not intended to be your only source of income when you retire. On average, Social Security will replace about 40 percent of your annual pre-retirement earnings. You will need other savings, investments, pensions, or retirement accounts to live comfortably when you retire. Social Security Administration Follow the Social Security Administration at these social media sites. cV You EFTA00811058 Your Estimated Benefits *Retirement You have earned enough credits to qualify for benefits. At your current earnings rate, if you continue working until... your full retirement age (66 years), your payment would be about 2,739 a month age 70, your payment would be about 3,700 a month age 65, your payment would be about 2,674 a month *Disability You have earned enough credits to qualify for benefits. If you became disabled right now your payment would be about 2,720 a month *Family If you get retirement or disability benefits, your spouse and children also may qualify for benefits *Survivors You have earned enough credits for your family to receive survivors benefits. If you die this year, certain members of your family may qualify for the following benefits: Your child 2,054 a month Your spouse who is caring for your child 2,054 a month Your spouse. if benefits start at full retirement age 2,739 a month Total family benefits cannot be more than 4,794 a month Your spouse or minor child may be eligible for a special one-time death benefit of $255. Medicare You already are receiving Medicare benefits. We used your past and current earnings to provide the benefit estimates shown above. • Your estimated benefits are based on current law. Congress has made changes to the law in the past and can do so at any time. The law governing benefit amounts may change because, by 2034, the payroll taxes collected will be enough to pay only about 79 percent of scheduled benefits. We based your benefit estimates on these facts: Your date of birth (please verify your name on page 1 and this date of birth) January 20, 1953 Your estimated taxable earnings per year after 2018 $127,200 Your Social Security number (only the last four digits are shown to help prevent identity theft) XXX-XX-3348 How Your Benefits Are Estimated To qualify for benefits, you earn "credits" through your work — up (3) Your estimated benefits are based on current law. The law to four each year. This year, for example, you earn one credit for governing benefit amounts may change. each $1,320 of wages or self-employment income. When you've (4) Your benefit amount may be affected by military service, earned $5,280, you've earned your four credits for the year. Most railroad employment or pensions earned through people need 40 credits, earned over their working lifetime, to work on which you did not pay Social Security tax. receive retirement benefits. For disability and survivors benefits, Visit www.socialsecurity.gov to learn more. young people need fewer credits to be eligible. We checked your records to see whether you have earned Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) — In the future, if you enough credits to qualify for benefits. If you haven't earned enough receive a pension from employment in which you do not pay Social yet to qualify for any type of benefit, we can't give you a benefit Security taxes, such as some federal, state or local government estimate now. If you continue to work, we'll give you an estimate work, some nonprofit organizations or foreign employment, when you do qualify. and you also qualify for your own Social Security retirement or What we assumed — If you have enough work credits, we disability benefit, your Social Security benefit may be reduced, estimated your benefit amounts using your average earnings over but not eliminated, by WEP. The amount of the reduction, if any, your working lifetime. For 2018 and later (up to retirement age), depends on your earnings and number of years in jobs in which you we assumed you'll continue to work and make about the same as paid Social Security taxes, and the year you are age 62 or become you did in 2016 or 2017. We also included credits we assumed you disabled. For more information, please see Windfall Elimination earned last year and this year. Provision (Publication No. 05-10045) at www.socialsecurily.gov/ Generally, the older you are and the closer you are to retirement, WEP. the more accurate the retirement estimates will be because they are Government Pension Offset (GPO) — If you receive a pension based on a longer work history with fewer uncertainties such as based on federal, state or local government work in which you did earnings fluctuations and future law changes. We encourage you not pay Social Security taxes and you qualify, now or in the future, to use our online Retirement Estimator to obtain immediate and for Social Security benefits as a current or former spouse, widow personalized benefit estimates. or widower, you are likely to be affected by GPO. If GPO applies, We can't provide your actual benefit amount until you apply for your Social Security benefit will be reduced by an amount equal to benefits. And that amount may differ from the estimates above two-thirds of your government pension, and could be reduced to because: zero. Even if your benefit is reduced to zero, you will be eligible (1) Your earnings may increase or decrease in the future. for Medicare at age 65 on your spouse's record. To learn more, (2) After you start receiving benefits, they will be adjusted for please see Government Pension Offset (Publication No. 05.10007) cost-of-living increases. at www.socialsecurity.gov/GPO. 2 IC] EFTA00811059 Your Earnings Record Your Taxed Your Taxed Your Taxed Your Taxed Years You Social Security Medicare Years You Social Security Medicare Worked Earnings Earnings Worked Earnings Earnings 1968 94 94 1999 72.600 180.000 1969 39 39 2000 76.200 240.666 1970 0 0 2001 80.400 249666 1971 0 0 2002 84.900 240.756 1972 256 256 2003 87.000 241.021 1973 50 50 2004 87.900 241.021 1974 4.000 4.000 2005 90.000 241.021 1975 10.200 10.200 2006 94.200 241.021 1976 15.300 15.300 2007 97.500 180.785 1977 16.500 16.500 2008 0 0 1978 17.700 17.700 2009 0 0 1979 22.900 22.900 2010 106.800 190.980 1980 25.900 25.900 2011 106.800 190.980 1981 29.700 29.700 2012 110.100 190.301 1982 0 0 2013 113.700 186.345 1983 0 0 2014 117.000 189.999 1984 0 0 2015 118.500 189.999 1985 0 0 2016 118.500 197.307 1986 0 0 2017 127.200 189.999 1987 43.800 43.800 1988 45.000 451.00 1989 48.000 48.000 1990 51.300 51.3(X) 1991 53.400 125.000 1992 55.500 130.2(X) 1993 57.600 135.000 1994 60.600 2.014.839 1995 61.200 153.564 1996 62.700 150.754 1997 65.400 150.754 1998 68.400 151.287 Total Social Security and Medicare taxes paid over your working career through the last year reported on the chart above: Estimated taxes paid for Social Security: Estimated taxes paid for Medicare: You paid: $152,811 You paid: $100.601 Your employers paid: $151,151 Your employers paid: $98,397 Note: Currently, you and your employer each pay a 6.2 percent Social Security tax on up to $128,400 of your earnings and a 1.45 percent Medicare tax on all your earnings. If you are self-employed, you pay the combined employee and employer amount, which is a 12.4 percent Social Security tax on up to $128,400 of your net earnings and a 2.9 percent Medicare tax on your entire net earnings. If you have earned income of more than $200,000 ($250,000 for married couples filing jointly), you must pay 0.9 percent more in Medicare taxes. Help Us Keep Your Earnings Record Accurate You, your employer and Social Security share responsibility for year's earnings reports when your Statement was prepared. Note: If the accuracy of your earnings record. Since you began working, you worked for more than one employer during any year, or if you we recorded your reported earnings under your name and Social had both earnings and self-employment income, we combined your Security number. We have updated your record each time your earnings for the year. employer (or you, if you're self-employed) reported your earnings. There's a limit on the amount of earnings on which you pay Remember, it's your earnings, not the amount of taxes you paid Social Security taxes each year. The limit increases yearly. or the number of credits you've earned, that determine your benefit Earnings above the limit will not appear on your earnings chart amount. When we figure that amount, we base it on your average as Social Security earnings. (For Medicare taxes, the maximum earnings over your lifetime. If our records are wrong, you may not earnings amount began rising in 1991. Since 1994, all of your receive all the benefits to which you're entitled. earnings are taxed for Medicare.) Review this chart carefully using your own records to make sure Call us right away at 1-800-772-1213 (7 ■. your local our information is correct and that we've recorded each year you time, TTY 1-800.325.0778) if any earnings for years before last worked. You're the only person who can look at the earnings chart year are shown incorrectly. Please have your W-2 or tax return and know whether it is complete and correct. for those years available. (If you live outside the U.S., follow the Some or all of your earnings from last year may not be shown directions at the bottom of page 4.) on your Statement. It could be that we still were processing last 3 EFTA00811060 Some Facts About Social Security About Social Security and Medicare... Social Security pays retirement, disability, family and Extra Help with Medicare — If you know someone who survivors benefits. Medicare, a separate program run by the is on Medicare and has limited income and resources, extra Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, helps pay for help is available for prescription drug costs. The extra help inpatient hospital care, nursing care, doctors' fees, drugs, can help pay the monthly premiums, annual deductibles and other medical services and supplies to people age 65 and prescription co-payments. To learn more or to apply, and older, as well as to people who have been receiving visit www.socialsecurity.gov or call 1-800-772-1213 Social Security disability benefits for two years or more. (TTY 1-800-325-0778). Your Social Security covered earnings qualify you for both Receive benefits and still work... programs. Medicare does not pay for long-term care, so you may want to consider options for private insurance. For more You can work and still get retirement or survivors benefits. If information about Medicare, visit www.medicare.gov or you're younger than your full retirement age, there are limits call 1-800-633-4227 (TTY 1-877-486.2048 if you are deaf on how much you can earn without affecting your benefit or hard of hearing). amount. When you apply for benefits, we'll tell you what the limits are and whether work would affect your monthly Retirement — If you were born before 1938, your full benefits. When you reach full retirement age, the earnings retirement age is 65. Because of a 1983 change in the law, limits no longer apply. the full retirement age will increase gradually to 67 for people born in 1960 and later. Before you decide to retire... Some people retire before their full retirement age. You Carefully consider the advantages and disadvantages of can retire as early as 62 and take benefits at a reduced rate. early retirement. If you choose to receive benefits before If you work after your full retirement age, you can receive higher benefits because of additional earnings and credits for you reach full retirement age, your monthly benefits will be reduced. delayed retirement. To help you decide the best time to retire, we offer a Disability — If you become disabled before full retirement free publication, When To Start Receiving Retirement age, you can receive disability benefits after six months if Benefits (Publication No. 05-10147), that identifies the you have: many factors you should consider before applying. Most — enough credits from earnings (depending on your age, people can receive an estimate of their benefit based on you must have earned six to 20 of your credits in the three their actual Social Security earnings record by using our to 10 years before you became disabled); and online Retirement Estimator. You also can calculate future — a physical or mental impairment that's expected to retirement benefits by using the Social Security Benefit prevent you from doing "substantial" work for a year or Calculators at www.socialsecurity.gov. more or result in death. Other helpful free publications include: If you are filing for disability benefits, please let us know — Retirement Benefits (No. 05-10035) if you are on active military duty or are a recently discharged — Understanding The Benefits (No. 05-10024) veteran, so that we can handle your claim more quickly. — Your Retirement Benefit: How It Is Figured (No. 05-10070) Family — If you're eligible for disability or retirement — Windfall Elimination Provision (No. 05-10045) benefits, your current or divorced spouse, minor children — Government Pension Offset (No. 05-10007) or adult children disabled before age 22 also may receive — Identity Theft And Your Social Security Number (No. benefits. Each may qualify for up to about 50 percent of your 05-10064) benefit amount. We also have other leaflets and fact sheets with Survivors — When you die, certain members of your family information about specific topics such as military may be eligible for benefits: service, self-employment or foreign employment. — your spouse age 60 or older (50 or older if disabled, or You can request Social Security publications at our any age if caring for your children younger than age 16); website, www.socialsecurity.gov, or by calling us and at 1-800-772-1213. Our website has a list of frequently asked — your children if unmarried and younger than age 18, still questions that may answer questions you have. We have in school and younger than 19 years old, or adult children easy-to-use online applications for benefits that can save you disabled before age 22. a telephone call or a trip to a field office. If you are divorced, your ex-spouse could be eligible for a You also may qualify for government benefits outside widow's or widower's benefit on your record when you die. of Social Security. For more information on these benefits, visit www.benefits.gov. If you need more information — Contact any Social Security office, or call us toll-free at 1-800-772-1213. (If you are deaf or hard of hearing, you may call our TTY number, 1-800-325-0778.) If you have questions about your personal information, you must provide your complete Social Security Number. If yorne in the United States, you also may write to the Social Security Administration, Office of Earnings Operations, . Box 33026, Vlore, MD 21290-3026. If you are outside the United States, please write to the Office of International Operations, Box 17769, Baltimore, MD 21235-7769, USA. Form SSA.7006 OL (Wilt 4 EFTA00811061